diff --git a/tools/appliance/build.sh b/tools/appliance/build.sh
index 9ac43885cd8..0b31cc1a558 100755
--- a/tools/appliance/build.sh
+++ b/tools/appliance/build.sh
@@ -433,12 +433,6 @@ scsi0:0.writeThrough = "false"
 scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
 scsi0.present = "TRUE"
 vmci0.unrestricted = "false"
-ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
-ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
-ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
-ethernet0.startConnected = "TRUE"
-ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
-ethernet0.wakeonpcktrcv = "false"
 vcpu.hotadd = "false"
 vcpu.hotremove = "false"
 firmware = "bios"
diff --git a/vmware-base/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/mo/HypervisorHostHelper.java b/vmware-base/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/mo/HypervisorHostHelper.java
index 71c007d2279..ef3f0ae327c 100644
--- a/vmware-base/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/mo/HypervisorHostHelper.java
+++ b/vmware-base/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/mo/HypervisorHostHelper.java
@@ -16,17 +16,6 @@
 // under the License.
 package com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.mo;
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.net.URI;
-import java.net.URISyntaxException;
-import java.security.InvalidParameterException;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Arrays;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
-
 import com.cloud.exception.CloudException;
 import com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.util.VmwareContext;
 import com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.util.VmwareHelper;
@@ -92,6 +81,33 @@ import com.vmware.vim25.VirtualSCSISharing;
 import com.vmware.vim25.VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitchPvlanSpec;
 import com.vmware.vim25.VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitchVlanIdSpec;
 import com.vmware.vim25.VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitchVlanSpec;
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.traversal.DocumentTraversal;
+import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter;
+import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
+import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.security.InvalidParameterException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 
 public class HypervisorHostHelper {
     private static final Logger s_logger = Logger.getLogger(HypervisorHostHelper.class);
@@ -1477,6 +1493,40 @@ public class HypervisorHostHelper {
         return url;
     }
 
+    public static String removeOVFNetwork(final String ovfString)  {
+        if (ovfString == null || ovfString.isEmpty()) {
+            return ovfString;
+        }
+        try {
+            final DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+            final Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(ovfString.getBytes()));
+            final DocumentTraversal traversal = (DocumentTraversal) doc;
+            final NodeIterator iterator = traversal.createNodeIterator(doc.getDocumentElement(), NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT, null, true);
+            for (Node n = iterator.nextNode(); n != null; n = iterator.nextNode()) {
+                final Element e = (Element) n;
+                if ("NetworkSection".equals(e.getTagName())) {
+                    if (e.getParentNode() != null) {
+                        e.getParentNode().removeChild(e);
+                    }
+                } else if ("rasd:Connection".equals(e.getTagName())) {
+                    if (e.getParentNode() != null && e.getParentNode().getParentNode() != null) {
+                        e.getParentNode().getParentNode().removeChild(e.getParentNode());
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            final DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(doc);
+            final StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+            final StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
+            final TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+            final Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
+            transformer.transform(domSource, result);
+            return writer.toString();
+        } catch (SAXException | IOException | ParserConfigurationException | TransformerException e) {
+            s_logger.warn("Unexpected exception caught while removing network elements from OVF:", e);
+        }
+        return ovfString;
+    }
+
     public static void importVmFromOVF(VmwareHypervisorHost host, String ovfFilePath, String vmName, DatastoreMO dsMo, String diskOption, ManagedObjectReference morRp,
             ManagedObjectReference morHost) throws Exception {
 
@@ -1488,9 +1538,9 @@ public class HypervisorHostHelper {
         importSpecParams.setEntityName(vmName);
         importSpecParams.setDeploymentOption("");
         importSpecParams.setDiskProvisioning(diskOption); // diskOption: thin, thick, etc
-        //importSpecParams.setPropertyMapping(null);
 
-        String ovfDescriptor = HttpNfcLeaseMO.readOvfContent(ovfFilePath);
+        String ovfDescriptor = removeOVFNetwork(HttpNfcLeaseMO.readOvfContent(ovfFilePath));
+
         VmwareContext context = host.getContext();
         OvfCreateImportSpecResult ovfImportResult =
                 context.getService().createImportSpec(context.getServiceContent().getOvfManager(), ovfDescriptor, morRp, dsMo.getMor(), importSpecParams);
diff --git a/vmware-base/test/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/mo/HypervisorHostHelperTest.java b/vmware-base/test/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/mo/HypervisorHostHelperTest.java
index 6997805b234..2fc9995091b 100644
--- a/vmware-base/test/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/mo/HypervisorHostHelperTest.java
+++ b/vmware-base/test/com/cloud/hypervisor/vmware/mo/HypervisorHostHelperTest.java
@@ -16,22 +16,7 @@
 // under the License.
 package com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.mo;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.verifyZeroInteractions;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
-
-import org.junit.After;
-import org.junit.AfterClass;
-import org.junit.Before;
-import org.junit.BeforeClass;
-import org.junit.Test;
-import org.mockito.Mock;
-import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
-
+import com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.util.VmwareContext;
 import com.vmware.vim25.AboutInfo;
 import com.vmware.vim25.BoolPolicy;
 import com.vmware.vim25.DVPortgroupConfigInfo;
@@ -41,8 +26,21 @@ import com.vmware.vim25.LongPolicy;
 import com.vmware.vim25.ServiceContent;
 import com.vmware.vim25.VMwareDVSPortSetting;
 import com.vmware.vim25.VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitchVlanIdSpec;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.AfterClass;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mock;
+import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
 
-import com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.util.VmwareContext;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verifyZeroInteractions;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
 
 public class HypervisorHostHelperTest {
     @Mock
@@ -557,4 +555,223 @@ public class HypervisorHostHelperTest {
         String cloudNetworkName = HypervisorHostHelper.composeCloudNetworkName(prefix, vlanId, svlanId, networkRateMbps, vSwitchName);
         assertEquals("cloud.guest.400.s123.512.1-vSwitch2", cloudNetworkName);
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testOvfDomRewriter() {
+        final String ovfString = "" +
+                "" +
+                "\n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "    Virtual disk information\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "    The list of logical networks\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "      The bridged network\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "    A virtual machine\n" +
+                "    macchinina-vmware\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "      The kind of installed guest operating system\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "      Virtual hardware requirements\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "        Virtual Hardware Family\n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        macchinina-vmware\n" +
+                "        vmx-07\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "      - \n" +
+                "        hertz * 10^6\n" +
+                "        Number of Virtual CPUs\n" +
+                "        1 virtual CPU(s)\n" +
+                "        1\n" +
+                "        3\n" +
+                "        1\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        byte * 2^20\n" +
+                "        Memory Size\n" +
+                "        256MB of memory\n" +
+                "        2\n" +
+                "        4\n" +
+                "        256\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        SCSI Controller\n" +
+                "        scsiController0\n" +
+                "        3\n" +
+                "        lsilogic\n" +
+                "        6\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        IDE Controller\n" +
+                "        ideController0\n" +
+                "        4\n" +
+                "        5\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        false\n" +
+                "        cdrom0\n" +
+                "        5\n" +
+                "        4\n" +
+                "        15\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        disk0\n" +
+                "        ovf:/disk/vmdisk1\n" +
+                "        6\n" +
+                "        3\n" +
+                "        17\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        2\n" +
+                "        true\n" +
+                "        bridged\n" +
+                "        E1000 ethernet adapter on "bridged"\n" +
+                "        ethernet0\n" +
+                "        7\n" +
+                "        E1000\n" +
+                "        10\n" +
+                "        \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        false\n" +
+                "        video\n" +
+                "        8\n" +
+                "        24\n" +
+                "        \n" +
+                "        \n" +
+                "        \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        false\n" +
+                "        vmci\n" +
+                "        9\n" +
+                "        vmware.vmci\n" +
+                "        1\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "      A human-readable annotation\n" +
+                "      macchinina-vmware\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "";
+
+        final String expected = "" +
+                "" +
+                "\n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "    Virtual disk information\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "  \n  \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "    A virtual machine\n" +
+                "    macchinina-vmware\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "      The kind of installed guest operating system\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "      Virtual hardware requirements\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "        Virtual Hardware Family\n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        macchinina-vmware\n" +
+                "        vmx-07\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        hertz * 10^6\n" +
+                "        Number of Virtual CPUs\n" +
+                "        1 virtual CPU(s)\n" +
+                "        1\n" +
+                "        3\n" +
+                "        1\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        byte * 2^20\n" +
+                "        Memory Size\n" +
+                "        256MB of memory\n" +
+                "        2\n" +
+                "        4\n" +
+                "        256\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        SCSI Controller\n" +
+                "        scsiController0\n" +
+                "        3\n" +
+                "        lsilogic\n" +
+                "        6\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        IDE Controller\n" +
+                "        ideController0\n" +
+                "        4\n" +
+                "        5\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        false\n" +
+                "        cdrom0\n" +
+                "        5\n" +
+                "        4\n" +
+                "        15\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        0\n" +
+                "        disk0\n" +
+                "        ovf:/disk/vmdisk1\n" +
+                "        6\n" +
+                "        3\n" +
+                "        17\n" +
+                "      \n      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        false\n" +
+                "        video\n" +
+                "        8\n" +
+                "        24\n" +
+                "        \n" +
+                "        \n" +
+                "        \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "
- \n" +
+                "        false\n" +
+                "        vmci\n" +
+                "        9\n" +
+                "        vmware.vmci\n" +
+                "        1\n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "      \n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "      A human-readable annotation\n" +
+                "      macchinina-vmware\n" +
+                "    \n" +
+                "  \n" +
+                "";
+        assertEquals(expected, HypervisorHostHelper.removeOVFNetwork(ovfString));
+    }
 }